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Is BabelFish close?

"After respects its matter but its food"

Jim

niisonge wrote:
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> Then, classical Chinese is much different from modern Chinese; much
> like old English is different from modern English. So a lot of things
> written in old times are too hard to read by most ordinary Chinese.
> For example, 敬其事而后其食, this sentence is pretty simple, but
> many people still can't understand it.